Nerotic
The name conflates "neurotic" with "erotic" — a Laboratorio Olfattivo move in the house's tradition of clever-provocative titles.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Amber55
- Leather55
- Citrus55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readThe name conflates "neurotic" with "erotic" — a Laboratorio Olfattivo move in the house's tradition of clever-provocative titles. Grapefruit and bergamot open with a clean citrus brightness that reads briefly conventional before saffron arrives and shifts the register entirely. The saffron here is the composition: metallic, honeyed, slightly leathery, and warmer than anything a citrus opening should logically lead toward.
Sandalwood and leather reinforce the saffron's natural leather facet in the base, while smoke and amber add darkness and extension. The smoke is not aggressive — it reads as a faint veil rather than a fog. The overall arc is a citrus-to-saffron-to-leather journey in tight focus: high contrast, minimal ornamentation, interesting throughout. For people who like saffron fragrances, this goes directly to the point.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
